Figure 50.Ali Aqil sweeping up, 13-11-2015. Photo by Muaffaq Hazza.
Figure 28. While stones were being removed, another part of the team began removing the soil using buckets and ropes. The strategy was to remove the thinner layers from the edges where bedrock was higher to isolate the deeper and thicker layer in the middle. This and the following 20 photographs show the soil ‘melt’ away until the final remnant is removed from the deeper center. 20-10-2015
Figure 11. Reservoir with residue of rain-supplied water from the winter of 2014-5, 19-9-2015.
Figure 27. Stone up 5- over the edge! 24-10-2015.
Figure 20. Stone removal part 4; this completed the clearing of sediment basin 2, 19-10-2015.
Figure 65. Mayor Hasan Fahed standing by the erstwhile al-Rgaibeh family reservoir. 9-11-2015. See figure 1, R19.
Figure 21. Smaller stones were carried up the steps in a grand 15 minute ‘parade’ in which the 20 members of the Commodus Gate Preservation team participated. 21-10-2015.
